Chapter 4

Chapter 4

The stench nearly knocked me out cold.

This was basically a freaking biochemical weapon!

After taking a moment, I finally managed to recover. I touched the emerald-green Dragon Token hanging in front of my chest.

Mingyuan’s voice sounded in my mind. “I’m fine.

“Ruyi, this is a Demon Domain. Be extra careful. I’ll find a chance to meet up with you.”

A so-called Demon Domain was a boundary cultivated by great demons with profound cultivation.

Once a Demon Subduer entered a Demon Domain, their strength would be weakened.

The demon itself, meanwhile, would receive a boost to its spells.

That made subduing demons even harder.

I had once stumbled into a fox demon’s Demon Domain before. It was only because its Demon Domain hadn’t fully activated that I’d managed to escape by sheer luck.

This time, I was afraid it wouldn’t be that simple.

A Demon Domain this large, and it was even sustaining the movements of so many paper figures.

Just how powerful was the demon behind all this?

I rubbed the Dragon Token in my hand and looked at the pitch-black courtyard ahead, my eyes narrowing despite myself.

The black fog dispersed, and the clothes on my body turned into a wedding outfit.

My vision was blocked by a bridal veil that had appeared out of nowhere.

Someone shoved a length of red silk into my hand.

That person pulled the red silk and led me into a room.

Then the door closed, and silence returned all around me.

I lifted the veil. Red filled my eyes.

It was actually a wedding chamber.

The corner of my mouth twitched. I brought my hands together, my fingers shifting through signs. The instant the Spirit-Seeking Array formed, it spread outward in every direction.

But the moment it touched the walls, the array vanished outright.

“What a powerful Demon Domain,” I muttered.

Just then, a rustling sound came from the doorway.

I immediately pulled the veil back over my head.

The main door was opened, and a sharp-faced, monkey-cheeked man in a red wedding outfit walked in.

“Wife, hehe, wife.”

Me: “…”

Where did this ugly idiot come from?

Drooling, he reached a hand toward me. “My third wife.”

“Hehe.”

The instant his fingers touched the veil, I reached out and grabbed his wrist.

I had no idea how many punches I threw.

When my fist landed on his face again, the man screamed and revealed his true form.

A fluffy tail sprouted behind him. Fur began growing over his face and hands, and his mouth grew longer and longer…

He was a weasel!

“It hurts! It hurts so much!” he wailed. “This wife is too fierce! I don’t want her anymore!”

His body kept shrinking until he became a weasel about a meter long. Then he turned and bolted.

Why was this demon so weak?

The question flashed through my mind for a second.

But I didn’t have time to think. Quick as lightning, I stepped down on his tail.

“Talk! Where did you put the girls you tricked here before?”

He pointed next door. “Over there! They’re over there!”

I grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and kicked open the door to the side room.

Inside was another wedding chamber, identical to this one.

A person sat in front of the carved wooden bed, wearing a bridal outfit and a veil, completely motionless.

My gaze sharpened. I tied the weasel up with the Demon-Binding Rope and tossed him aside.

Only when I approached the wooden bed did I realize the person was trembling all over.

I raised a hand and lifted her veil.

Chen Ling’s face appeared right in front of me.

Her eyes were squeezed tightly shut as she screamed, “Don’t touch me! Don’t touch me!”

I patted her face. “Chen Ling, Chen Ling! It’s me, Yun Ruyi!”

Only after hearing my name did she finally calm down.

She stared at me with wide eyes. A few seconds later, she burst into tears with a loud wail.

“Ruyi! I ran into a demon!”

Chen Ling said she’d come here yesterday for her part-time job, but after the person in charge brought her here, she couldn’t get out.

A man who looked like a weasel kept calling her “wife” and tried to touch her. But because of the bracelet she was wearing, he hadn’t been able to get close to her.

I glanced at her bracelet. Even inside this Demon Domain, it was still glowing faintly silver.

It really was a good item.

I checked her body. Fortunately, all three of her souls were still there. She had only been badly frightened.

Chen Ling clutched my hand tightly. “Ruyi, did you see that really ugly demon?”

I comforted her. “It’s okay, it’s okay. That demon was ridiculously weak. I’ve already subdued him.

“Look, he’s over there…”

I pointed toward the corner.

Then my smile froze on my face.

Chen Ling stammered, “Where?”

Me: “…”

Where?

I didn’t know either.

The Demon-Binding Rope lay loose on the floor. The weasel had long since vanished without a trace.